There was the honour and austerity of money as he walked through art galleries, as he saw around him the collections of oil paintings by dead men, lit so carefully that warmth seemed to emanate...

In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!

Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Getting started, keeping going, getting started again – in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the...

Christ is, then, the perfect art work in the sense of that reality in whom is realised those goals that all artistic making has as its explicit or implicit ends. Because he is infinite meaning,...

L’amour ne peut pas se passer d’échange, de petits billets doux que l’on s’adresse et se renvoie. L’amour est peut-être la plus belle forme du dialogue que l’homme a inventé pour se répondre à lui-même....

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.

That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work. And make the right choices and protect...

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

In other words, if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him; which is, of course, what horse manure has always been about.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other

Collaboration is key, it takes innovation and creativity to the next room.

Art is inextricably tied to man’s survival – not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

I do not fear that “future generations will not read novels,” etc. It is probably a complete misunderstanding to conceive of serious art in categories of production, market, readers, supply and demand(…)art is not the...

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

She has given me a way out.

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real theobservation has been noted and that is enough...

Early in this century a group of passionate artists in Russia claimed that the essence of art was to make the familiar seem strange. Perhaps this is also one of the roles of the exotic,...

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will always be good enough in the opinion of economists.What is the use of...

Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

Sometimes paper is only paper,” my mothers says. “Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don’t be afraid to remember that.”I know what she means. Writing, painting, singing–it cannot stop everything. Cannot...

In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God’s art.

All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful… If you emphasize the truth-telling at...

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Wicca offered real, not pretended, means for the individual to express the art, beauty, and reality of ritual, including magic, in the here and now. –Paul Turnbull

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must...

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend

He was interested in politics, reading, good food and art. He was very energetic. He never stopped.

They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that’s how he started out, writing fiction. Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface. Yes, the...

Let’s always try to paint the truth … our art must be made to mean something.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.––Manet to Monet, on Renoir—

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.

Seaside Studies,” will perceive that science excites poetry rather than extinguishes it. And whoever will contemplate the life of Goethe will see that the poet and the man of science can co-exist in equal activity....

Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren’t going to earn a living? I know the answer…I worried that the paint was so thickly...